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A-Rod Torre???
How much money is too much nowadays to pay a baseball player in the major leagues?
Alex Rodriquez decided to opt out of his New York Yankee contract with three years remaining, cutting short the $252 million he would have earned. He will now get around $180 million for the seven years and probably another $1.8 million this year for post-season awards.
I guess A-Rod thinks that he can sign another five-year contract with another loaded team like the radio rumored California Angels for millions more than he’s worth.
I guess the price of hot dogs, beer, tickets etc.. will continue to soar like the price of oil as long as MLB teams continue to dish out the big bucks.
REALLY, HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH??
Joe Torre is truly a class act in the game of baseball.
He has already spoken with Joe Giraldi and wished him well with the Yankee managerial position.
Don Mattingly has already told the Yankees he had no desire to return next year as bench coach or any other coaching position.
Even though Tony Pena had more managing experience within the organization, the Yankees opted to go with Giraldi.
Personally, I would love to see Joe Torre go to an organization like the Pittsburgh Pirates and develop their young pitching staff and players.
JUST MY OPINION AND MY WISHFUL THINKING…I KNOW WHAT YOUR THINKING..JOE TORRE IN PITTSBURGH…YOU BROKE THREE RIBS ON THAT ONE….LOL.
Finally my home team folks have an early Christmas bonus of $21.3 million due to A-Rod opting to rob the economy again.
Most Ranger fans are saying to GO GET SOME PITCHING!!!
Well, I strongly disagree with that philosophy.
The last two years, the Rangers have brought in Padilla and Milwood on pretty high wages and neither have performed very well. Milwood has a .500 record the past two years and Padilla has a 21-20 record with an ERA of over five.
WHY NOT…WHY NOT…spend some of this money on more scouts and continue to develop within the farm system itself..
NOW, THIS COULD WORK!!
Anyhow, just one man’s opinion on personnel in baseball and the cost involved for us poor folks who still enjoy watching the game….from home!
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Marchers Find American Values “On Ice” TAYLOR, Texas If you believe fascism is dead, take a walk with Jay Johnson-Castro through South Texas. He has experience pointing out corporations’ lock-step with government. Last year, Johnson-Castro marched to prevent a fence along the U.S./Mexico border from being federally-subsidized. Last week, the Del Rio-based immigrant rights advocate finished another march to show how the forces in and around the Valley are treating their population of “undesirables.” “These guys design laws that legalize corruption, and they won’t get rid of the laws that allow for corruption,” said Johnson-Castro. To his dismay but not surprise, the Williamson County Commissioners’ Court stopped short of terminating its contract with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to administer the infamous T. Don Hutto Family Residential Facility. This is the same facility that was converted from a prison in order to detain children of illegal immigrants in the United States. Instead, the Court made a deal to alleviate its financial and legal liability should something go wrong at the center, which human rights groups have wanted closely since it opened. In case of a lawsuit, CCA agreed to front $250,000 for a legal defense fund and pay the county $5,000 a month to hire a monitor for the facility. The reason for the concern is that in the last year, a female inmate was raped by a guard who was later fired by the company, which happens to be the nation’s largest provider of corrections management services to government agencies. The incident was not caught on tape, although the county was contractually bound to be in charge of the building’s administration. One would think from watching Lou Dobbs on CNN that these centers house only illegals from Mexico. Wrong. There are people of any number of nationalities in U.S. detention centers. In the Hutto facility, about 41 different countries are represented. In fact, a nine-year-old Canadian-born Iranian boy, Kevin Yourdkhani, spent weeks in Hutto after his airplane made an unexpected stop in the United States. Yourdkhani and his family, who were originally deported back to Iran, were later released only because of an appeal to the Canadian prime minister. “The mindset is that we’re not humans, but we’re all Americans,” said Jose Orta, a resident of Taylor, Texas, who has kept abreast of the activities at Hutto. “We’ve got to think how we’d want our children cared for.” The same week Johnson-Castro led his most recent march through South Texas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested two Israelis in Brownsville, Texas. The man and the woman allegedly entered into separate sham marriages with Americans to bypass immigration laws. And where were they taken? Raymondville, Willacy County, Texas. This town of 9,000-plus is the site of the world’s largest immigrant prison camp. The front page of the Oct. 24, 2007, Raymondville Chronicle quoted County Ju
